The increasingly absurd charges of racism, like the one leveled at Rick Perry that his reference to a “black cloud” of debt referred to President Obama, or Morgan Freeman’s wholesale imputation of the Tea Party, seem to have commentators stumped — at least those who still operate on the basis of logic and evidence. Mona Charen, for example, points to the obvious, like the support for presidential contender Herman Cain, a Tea Party favorite. I made similar observations in these pages back in 2009 when I covered a Tea Party event headlined by Cain in suburban Cobb County and then his announcement rally in May in downtown Atlanta.

At that rally last May I learned something from a gregarious black friend. Spotting my friend’s Uncle Sam hat and Cain buttons, another black man, who was hanging back to blend in with fellow black Atlantans who were at the park for other reasons, struck up a conversation. And then I learned just how much pressure black conservatives feel from fellow blacks. Why it was just about as bad as being on a college campus!

This is no accident. White radicals have been fostering this kind of infighting for nearly a hundred years. Divide and conquer — according to class, no less for blacks than for whites — has been the modus operandi of the Communist Party since at least the 1920s.

As the black middle class grew in the post World War II period, radicals had to resort to increasingly absurd claims to make the charge that things were getting worse. Ignoring the statistical evidence, they scoured the ghettoes and trotted out the criminal and down-and-out black as representative of black America. The influential white writer Norman Mailer valorized the black criminal in his 1957 pamphlet “The White Negro.” Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, the Chicago political power couple who continued their efforts to bring down America within the college classroom, use criminals and the “disadvantaged” as illustrations of the evils of our capitalist system, as I wrote about here. Of course, to criticize the profiteering spokesmen for the “disadvantaged,” like Al Sharpton, is to invite charges of racism. But it is to the benefit of their political cause that the “disadvantaged” remain disadvantaged into perpetuity.

Those who are not “disadvantaged,” who do not need their “help,” are vilified. Self-made men, the “bourgeoisie,” like Herman Cain, though they are black, are dismissed with charges of “racial self-hate” or of being pawns of the white, ruling capitalists. So while Cain might identify with the Tea Party — indeed shout it from the housetops that he supports the Tea Party — the Tea Party will be called “racist,” “reactionary,” and “fascist.” That is what Paul Street, co-author of Crashing the Tea Party, said on Progressive Radio recently; the Tea Party, according to him, has “fascist” tendencies, is “reactionary,” and, because of its largely white membership, is “racist.”

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Mr. Potato Head

It’s hardly just race. Enemies of freedom have tried to create fissures across many identity groups (gender, sexual orientation, race, ethic, religion, social-economic groups, etc.) across out populace for political gain.

Herman is not the first and won’t be the last either. Michael Steele’s campaign for the Senate in Maryland was filled with racial slurs and indecency. Clarence Thomas was abused for the crime of being nominated for the Supreme Court.

It’s fine to criticise proups who take advantage of conflicts within and among societies, but do not fantacize that they create the conflicts. Racial tension exists at any time more than one race occupy the same territory. It’s Human Nature. Sorry, it exists; it’s universal; it’s hard-wired; and deal with it. Forget race, men and women are different in emotion as well as physically. They do not get along well together in competition. PC has down-graded “getting along together” to mean that there is seldom physical violence. You can bet that even that won’t last. The danger to Western/Christian civilization isn’t weapons of mass destruction; it’s that Mohammedans live in societies that are stronger than the secular, modern, decadent behavior-sinks existing in Europe today. Mohammedans are cutting through European societies like a hot knife through butter. Violence isn’t necessary, except to goose the inevitable process along at times. As somebody once pointed out: you can’t beat something with nothing.

“There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances because they do not want to lose their job.”
Sound a like the present day CBC to me.

One of my favorite quotes, but not one today’s progressives in the CBC and black community want to hear. In fact, they would castigate Booker T as just another “Uncle Tom” and “steppin’ and fetchin’” for the white man. What is amazing is that almost 110 years after he made this statement, the same situation exists, with an elitist “Talented Tenth” (W.E.B DuBois’s term) called the Congressional Black Caucus, determining how blacks will succeed or fail. Those who don’t know their own history and are doomed to repeat the same failures…it’s like a defective gene.

It all comes down to the seven deadly sins – in this case, primarily envy and wrath, with a generous admixture of sloth, pride, and greed.

Regardless of race, we all are subject to temptation to these sins. It does not help when organizations such as the CBC and the NAACP and the SPLC mislead their followers by mislabeling these vices as virtues.

Leftists are always on the side of death and destruction. I’m 60 years old and have watched them destroy the black family while calling conservatives the enemy of the black man. Excellent post Ms Grabar.

“In the intervening sixty years, the Progressives/communists/socialists have engaged in a propaganda war, charging those who do not agree with their agenda with racism. Their Great Society social policies have succeeded in destroying cohesive communities, as intended, so the “disadvantaged” are dependent on their wisdom in dispensing the goods confiscated from the bourgeoisie.”

This is the heart of it. Obama used this in his 2008 campaign, but it’s going to run a little flat in 2012. The American people know what’s coming in the sense that they now know that the Obama campaign will call anybody who disagree with them “racists.” But that old ploy will not work anymore. People are tired of this, and I thought Obama, the great “healer,” was going to bridge the great “racial divide?” Obama and his minions have only made things worse by not only tarring innocent people with the “racist” label,” but they have also cheapen the word “racism,” so much so that people today ignore real racism when it happens. Obama and the Democrats have been happy to keep blacks on their perpetual plantation, making them dependent on the Democratic party for just about everything, from education to welfare. What the black community needs are jobs and a robust economy, something that will help bring everybody out of this mess we are now in. If a Republican president does that when he or she takes office in 2013, it will go a long way to easing the racial tensions that Obama and his supporters have created.

Even if Cain/Rubio/West were the Republican Party ticket, the parasitic Left and its host bodies – the Democratic Party and Mainstream Media – will always use race-mongering, race-baiting and the race-card – it is the only card they have left.

We’re fools not to be frightened that America has arrived to Germany, 1939.

On top of the collapsing economy =:obama is creating more than one race war with which he can lock his handlers’ control of the nation. Whites vs. Blacks, Whites vs. Muslims, Whites vs. Hispanics. But take Asians, white Hispanics, white ‘minorities’ like Jews, Ukranians, whosis-Stanis, etc., etc., all that’s left is ME — and I’m not even Anglo-Saxon. You bet I’m scared. The President, who has an army of millions, is after me!

All Socialist/Marxist/etc. regimes so far have gone ballistic when the ‘stupid’ masses didn’t go along with the unnatural schemes their superior brains had cooked up. “Ballistic” in terms of real bullets, real guillotines, real murder squads, real gulags, real re-education camps (120 million and counting from the Committee for Public Safety to beyond Pol Pot).

You can already see it happening: the left is trotting out their Ministry of Propaganda, aka Hollywood, to demonize Obozo opponents. Recently, Garofolo ripped into Cain supporters as racists! Got that? Support a black conservative against a half-black communist, you are a racist! Does it get any more insane than this?

Along with her brain and other anatomic regions. Garafalo is the poster woman for the SWPL demographic. White, college educated(superficially), elitist, affluents who have benefited from our system of meritocracy and self motivation but are willfully blind to the genius of a culture that has made them rich. Talk about a “hate speecher”, Garafolo and her ilk are eternal malcontents who will meet their maker with a hateful scowl on their ugly mugs.

I have to stop reading this nonsense…it is destroying the peace that I found recently in Tibet. The lies and darkness of articles like this are infecting and eating away at – may I dare say it? – my sole. When a progressive white man says, “I want to help my fellow negro by giving him free health care, and food (in the form of a stamp, which is the preferred method, I’m told), and cigarettes”, how is that person “using” said negroid for a political end? And how is it that a conservative white man who calls for removing said benefits empowering said negrodo? Who is really helping who? How much thought is needed to see the truth? And this whole “the Tea Steepers aren’t racist because they support Herman Cain” thing is a joke. Herman cain is practically white. It’s rumored that his grandmother on his father’s side was a quarter white. Hence, Cain is not fully negro. Thus, he is not fully black and none of you neocons should be referring to him as “black” or “African American”….he’s probably never been to Africa (I’ve have, having visited Cape Town a number of times…wonderful resorts).

“may I dare say it? – my sole” I will agree snork, however me thinks she is not very bright & does not know the difference between the “soul” & the sole of my size 9.5″ prodding her lovelybutt back to Tibet. (We can deal with Johnny the faux “physicist” for sport)

I recall in the latter part of the last century a campaign by leftists to convince blacks that ‘white’ entities were intentionally flooding their neighborhoods with drugs to sap their spirits. Lefties like Alexander Cockburn disseminated this propaganda despite the fact they knew it to be not only false, but ridiculous. They just believed in their racist hearts that blacks were dumb enough to buy that absurd story.

Of course, LovelyEarth, even by your lights Cain is a great deal more “black” than, oh, say, Barack Obama.

For the left, of course, “fascist” means “I don’t agree with it.” For anyone who knows even a smidgen about actual fascism, a movement that favors less government control over the economy and less government control over individual people’s lives by definition cannot be “fascist.”

Fascism involves the grabbermint controlling the economy, while allowing business owners to retain nominal ownership. One of my former neighbors was a federal government employee (long deceased) who was a real misanthrope.

He once said, “I’m a fascist.”

I asked him what he meant.

He replied, “The US is a fascist system and I believe in it.”

Ooooookaaayyyy.

Fascism typically involves aggressive expansionism. Aggressive expansionism has been a prominent feature of some (though certainly not all) nationalist movements, and it has also motivated the international communist movement from the get-go.

Ah, the current Democratic Party and its reliance on identity politics and obsession with social justice. The far left saw an opportunity in 2007-2008 and turned over the car keys to a virtual unknown, vetting is not required when your candidate has wonderfully ironed pants (I guess that is what earned him the waiver, right?). I mean Dems would not have one set of standards for people of color and one for female candidates because that would pit two or their core constituencies against each other. Two groups they continually take for granted and represent inconsistency (women’s rights are only for lefty-codependent-government-supporting-females and civil rights for lefty-codependent-government-supporting-people-of-color). Palin and Cain have been contacted for comment.

Enough of the zero-sum, redistributive economics of President PantCrease. How about we favor policies that clarify the rules for business and create an economic climate for everyone to work hard and succeed? And “made in America” means drilling for oil and gas here, not being South America’s best customer.

Until the media and Dem party leaders dial down the rhetoric and engage in two way communication, their base is going to continue to get smaller. The race card has been overplayed as has the “stupid”, “dumb”, and “evil” labels. It’s sad that the lefties don’t seem to really believe that a standard of excellence can be met by all Americans, just by them.

Let me get this right: Effete, wealthy white progressives are telling blacks that whites are the enemy. So where does that put the effete, wealthy white progressives? Does Gagmeafolo and Huffingglu think they will be immune to black hatred just because they side with blacks-now? Are they not the very target they are telling blacks to hate, i.e., wealthy, white, whinning, greedy, ugly (oh sorry), etc, etc?

If blacks are THIS “galatically stupid” then they should remain on the dem plantation because they are no good for America and obviously cannot think for themselves i.e., Waters, Rangel, Lee, and so on.

You nailed it, Mary. I’m reminded of 2 aging, wealthy, white trust-funders I know. These men hate capitalism, America, Israel. They are quick to lecture others about these evils and others of racism and bigotry. They are rabid Marxists (one is also Jewish). The read Chaomsky like he’s the Bible. The irony is that their life-long, work-free lifestyles were made possible by hard-working successful capitalist fathers…who are now turning over in their graves at the traitorous rats their sons have become.

Let me guess these two “Progressive” boys were “Educated” in our finest Marxist Schools….Also known as “Ivy League” Schools.

I have been bitten buy the same type of dim witted over educated under worked self hating sloths my self. I worked for a family owned and run business that was sold by the “children” out from under the old man who started it. It was even sold to the competition. It was not a small place 500 people and 150 million in sales.

The “Grown” children wanted “their” money out of the business and into the trust funds NOW, because they had “No desire” to run the company any longer. And “thought the company and it’s people would be in better hands” if these other people owned it. It has been a slow leaching in the two years since, the “investment” group who bought us is more worried about making the “profit” numbers look good on the balance sheet than total sales and future projects, and because of a large increase in “price” we have lost business that would have kept more people employed and a better balance of work flowing through the doors because 20% extra profit is all that matters. Now we don’t always have the staff or equipment to run all the orders that the business fluctuations demand.

The people who look at business this way and put numbers on a spread shee in front of people and common business sense are the exact people who give traction to the anti capitalist argument.

Funny part is the anti capitalist worms usually sell out old family businesses or are heavily “invested” in the exact type of people they “hate” in public. But they must “get their money” some how.

Yes, The Left is responsible for segregation in the south, that much we know. What the Government doesn’t want you to know is the Left is responsible for Jim Crow and White Supremacist propaganda. The Left worked hard to keep Blacks from voting just like it worked hard to keep White women from voting, and anyone, anyone, can see where this is leading.

The simple fact is the communists have left a paper trail of enormous proportion which everyone seems to ignore. William Z. Foster’s 1932 tome “Toward Soviet America” lay’s it all out and looking back you can actually see the success they have had toward that goal in our education system. Page 316 of my copy, “The students will be tought on the basis of Marxian dialectical materialsm, internationalism and the general ethics of the new Socialist society.” “Studies will be CLEANSED of religous, patriotic and other features of bourgeois idelogy.” Ever wonder where we get high school students that declare themselves Citizens of the world? Oh yea, this will be acomplished by the National Department of Education! This was published in 1932 but if you mention it you are touted as a reactionary, McCarthyite, or a Red Baiter. As Glenn Beck has said McCarthy may have been the wrong messenger but the message had a very crdeible point, but gets ignored. That is how we get a U.S. Navel vessel named for one of Alinsky’s most honored pupils, the USS Cesar Chavez, how long before we have the USS Che? THE truth will set you Free.

It is also the left that has worked so hard at aborting one in three black unborn babies in the USA and keeping it legal to do so. And it is very sad that our biracial POTUS didn’t take to heart his stated desire to heal relations between blacks and whites. He had every opportunity to use his heritage for good yet so far has shown no inclination to do so.

Miss Grabar: I am the Renaissance Festival actor who just sent you a Facebook friend request. Not to make you uncomfortable, but merely to let others know I think highly of you, I will repeat here what I said by message: will you marry me? Now you say, “Thanks, but I think not.” So neither of us is worse off, but I have made it public that I think you’re wonderful. Peace!

Anyone who claims not to have any racism in them is a liar. We all want best for people of like us and our background. What separates us from the hate mongers is our ability to show respect for people that are not like us. We also try and help everyone equally to better themselves. After all we are the children of GOD and strive for a better life for ourselves and our children, we just have different ideas on how to achieve this goal.

Masters of Deceit: The Story of Communism in America and How to Fight It

I purchased an original copy of this book from a used bookstore. J. Edgar Hoover is another in the long list of conservative America-firsters that have been vilified by the Democratic Mainstream Media. He gives a mound of evidence in this book about Communist/Socialist front organizations that were either infiltrated or founded by communists from the 1920′s to the late 1950′s when this book was written. This book should be a must-read for every high school student in America so they can identify their tricks and tactics. Unfortunately, with how our national Republican and Democratic Representatives trample on the Constitution, it may be too late.

A generation of the left is missing because of the overuse of abortion. The left worried about too many people so abortion was encouraged but then The left let unlimited immigration overcrowd the country.

This is the story of identical twins, one has two jobs and the other has none. One twin works at two fast food restaurants, and the other lives in a homeless shelter. The working twin has two girl friends, while the other has none. the only job the unemployed brother has is the handjob he gives himself every night. Justice would be better served if the law forced the lucky brother to share his goodies.

It’s turning out that the president of the United States, the Attorney General of the United States, and the New Black Panther Party have much more in common than race. Call it recompense, call it reparations, that commonality is almost as ugly and damnable as any crimes committed by the Ku Klux Klan.

Barack Hussein Obama has undertaken prodigious efforts to appear the president of all the people regardless of race and an even greater effort to conceal his radical, racist past. Eric Himpton Holder has been more forthcoming in his racism and active discrimination toward white Americans without conceding his bigotry. The New Black Panther Party, founded on black racism and distinguished from the old Black Panthers only by the fact most have not yet been tried and convicted, is more brazenly ingenuous about its radical racism.

No matter Obama’s attempts to hide who and what he is, no matter Holder’s accidental admissions, if nothing else, Obama and Holder could learn a great deal about forthrightness from the NBPP. Their learning curve aside, recent and past revelations have now linked all of them.

After his election, Obama told America he has been running for the presidency since kindergarten. Toward that end, he campaigned in Selma, Alabama in March, 2007. Nothing wrong with that; he campaigned in 57 of America’s 58 states so Alabama most likely was one of them.

What is very wrong is that photos depicting him marching and speaking with NBPP National Chief Malik Zulu Shabazz and other members of the New Black Panther Party were quashed and hidden from the American public for four years by Obama’s mainstream media.

That oversight could readily be attributable to journalistic negligence–or to a covert attempt to portray their hero, their anointed one, as Everyman, a universal man who represented all of America, black, white, yellow and everyone in between, who didn’t have a racist bone in his body. . .

Not unsurprisingly, like those damning 2007 photos, that evidence of “reverse racism” has been suppressed by Obama’s media.

Obama’s appointment of fellow African-American Eric Holder as attorney general should have provided the clue that neither Obama nor his new appointee were on the same page as the majority of Americans.

Eric Holder’s background of facilitating Bill Clinton’s pardon of fugitive Marc Rich, defending the terrorist Ejército Popular Boricua, negotiating a settlement in the case of Chiquita Brands paying off terrorists, his firm’s representation of Guantanomo accused terrorists, etc., were a dead giveaway that Holder was closer to being a terrorist himself than qualified to be the attorney general of the United States.

You may have been able “to lose the blues in Chicago” in Sinatra’s day but nowadays you’re just as likely to lose your life.

Our president hails from the Windy City–by way of New York, California, Hawaii, and some still say Kenya–as do many of his top advisers and Chicago is now ruled by the heavy hand of his former Chief of Staff, Rahm “Dead Fish” Emanuel. Coincidentally, neither Obama nor Emanuel is doing very well.

Known for its beef, mobsters, and dead people voting, the Chicago metropolitan area with almost 10 million residents and the city proper with almost 3 million were awarded the dubious title of “Murder Capital of America.” Its murder stats show Chicago triples the rate of New York City and they’re near the top in robberies and aggravated assaults.

As for rapes, no one knows since for some reason Chicago doesn’t keep track of those numbers. Too many to count, maybe, or maybe it’s not worth the bother.

All in all, Chicago isn’t just Sinatra’s “toddling town,” it’s a teetering town.

Interestingly, considering developments in the Big Apple’s Zuccotti Park and across the nation, a mere 10 years ago Barack Obama was busily supporting and addressing Chicago anti-war protests comparable in acrimony if not the unruliness of the Occupy Wall Streeters. Twenty years ago, he would have organized them, according to Stanley Kurtz.

Today, Chicagoland is witnessing a resurgence of similar civil protests which go far beyond the relatively peaceful Occupy Chicago demonstrations. Those protests stand in sharp contrast to their fellows in New York, Portland, and elsewhere where the crazies have taken over and anarchy prevails.

Chicago, on the other hand, is experiencing something almost worse, a breakdown of both civil and moral behavior, a total disregard for common decency, a foreboding of things to come resulting from Mayor Emanuel’s weak-kneed response to violence in his city and his former boss’ endorsement of un-civil OWSers.